Andrew Scott Johnston

Thinking Heritage Through China (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040306369
• Artikelnr.: 72480883

Autorenporträt

Andrew Scott Johnston is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Virginia. He is a licensed architect with a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as a supervising architect for the Historic American Engineering Record and as an environmental planner for the California State Department of Transportation (Caltrans), working with a wide range of experts and stakeholders on the preservation and interpretation of historic cultural landscapes. He was the founding director of both the Master of Architecture degree program and the Urban Design degree program at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thinking Heritage through China. Part 1: Frameworks of
Heritage Practice. 1. The "China Dream": Heritage Practice under President
Xi. 2. "A Chinese Spirit in Modern Strength": A Foundation Story for
Chinese Preservation. 3. A Past of the Mind: The New Suzhou Walls and the
Limits of Universal Preservation. Part 2: Nationalism and Heritage
Practice. 4. Inventing a World Heritage Site: Time, Nationalism, and
Tourism. 5. Searching for Shangri-la: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Unity. 6.
Remembering and Forgetting: The Century of Humiliation and the Rise of
China. Part 3: Development and Heritage Practice. 7. Imagining the "Old
City": Creating Places of Consumption. 8. Tourism and the Tourist
Experience: The Ancient City of Pingyao. 9. Nostalgia and Rural Heritage.
Conclusion: Questions Inspired by Chinese Heritage Practice.